CONSECRATION to the TWO HEARTS in the LIGHT of the THIRD MILLENNIUM Mother Adela, SCTJM Foundress for Private Use Only -© Revelations of the Sacred Heart to St
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Heart to Heart - Teachings of Mother Adela Galindo, Foundress SCTJM CONSECRATION TO THE TWO HEARTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Mother Adela, SCTJM Foundress For private use only -© Revelations of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret at Paray le Monial (1674- 1675): In these apparitions, Jesus revealed His Heart and asked for the propagation of the devotion to His Sacred Heart and the practice of the First Friday reparations. Fatima (1916-1917): The Blessed Virgin revealed Her Immaculate Heart and expressed Her desire that the devotion to Her Immaculate Heart and the First Saturday devotion of reparation be established. Pontevedra (May 18th, 1936): Sister Lucia asked Jesus why Russia would not be converted except through its Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Jesus responded, “Because I desire My Church to recognize this favor as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and, in this way, to extend the devotion to her Immaculate Heart together with my Sacred Heart.” Consecration to the Immaculate Heart is the condition for the conversion of Russia (and the end of religious persecution). Jesus said, “I desire My Church to recognize this favor as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and in this way, to extend the devotion to her Immaculate Heart together with my Sacred Heart.” After recognizing the triumph of the Immaculate Heart over atheism, there should be thus established the devotion to the Two Hearts. Why? Could it be because the second part of the promise is that a time of peace will come to the world and that this should be obtained through the triumph of the Two Hearts? In other words, through the reign of these Two Hearts in our own hearts? Even though the Hearts of Jesus and Mary have been venerated together for many centuries (beginning in a great way by St. John Eudes [1601-1680] who was hailed by Pope XIII as the “Author of the Liturgical Worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Holy Heart of Mary” in 1903), it seems that the Holy Spirit has been speaking to the Church, revealing to us that a new Era of the Two Hearts is being initiated. THE UNION OF THESE TWO HEARTS The Heart of Mary is the heart of a creature, and the Heart of Jesus is the Heart of God-made-man. Between these two Hearts there are impressive complementarities. Saint John Eudes: “What union, what intimacy, what understanding and correspondence between these two Hearts… The Holy Heart of Mary was, therefore, always intimately united with the Sacred Heart of Her divine Son…She always desired what He desired and also consented to act and to suffer so as to fulfill the work of our redemption” (cf. The Admirable Heart of Mary). Moreover he says, “These Hearts have been so united that they are a single Heart in sentiment, affection and will. In addition, Jesus lives and reigns so fully in the Heart of Mary that He is truly the soul of Her soul, the spirit of Her spirit and the heart of Her Heart” (The Sacred Heart of Jesus). This unity, which is testified in Sacred Scripture and in the Tradition of the Church, Servant of God John Paul II has called, “Alliance of the Two Hearts.” Alliance means profound and indissoluble union. The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) By the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary conceived in her womb God-made-man. From that moment, the Heart of Jesus would be eternally united to the Heart of Mary. Both Hearts would beat with a single beat. They would love, feel, suffer and desire with the same beat. “The bond of unity that was created between the Mother and the Son when Mary bore Him under Her Heart, in Her womb, will continue, in both of them, always” (John Paul II, Homily, August 18, 1991). Furthermore, he wrote, “From the very moment when the Word was made flesh beneath the heart of Mary, there has existed, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, an enduring relationship of love between them” (Letter to Cardinal Jaime Sin, Sept. 8, 1986). And, “It is under Her Heart that the Heart of the Word made flesh began to beat” (cf. John Paul II, Angelus, June 24, 2002). The Presentation and the Prophecy (Luke 2:33-35) We see, when the Child is presented to the temple, that Simeon gives a prophecy to Mary: “this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted…and you yourself a sword will pierce” (vs. 34-35). Where is this prophecy fulfilled? Each time that the Heart of Jesus is pierced by pain, ridicule, rejection, coldness, rebellion, the Heart of Mary is also pierced. All that is done to the Heart of Jesus is also done to the Heart of Mary, and all that is done to the Heart of Mary is done to the Heart of Jesus. In Fatima, the Blessed Virgin asked that the Lord not be offended anymore, and that instead He be consoled. In Pontevedra, Jesus asked Sr. Lucia that His Mother not be offended anymore and that the thorns that were embedded in Her Heart by the sins of the world be removed. The visible culmination of this union is at the Cross. How is it that Mary’s Heart was also pierced if She did not receive physically the sword of the centurion? This can only be explained in the light of the mystical and supernatural communion of their Hearts. This complete unity did not end at the Cross; it was manifested so that we could comprehend it, but it will continue eternally. Servant of God John Paul II, on September 15, 1985 said, “The definitive union of the Heart of Jesus and of Mary was sealed in Calvary” (cf. Angelus Message, no.4). Why? Because covenants are always sealed with a sacrifice. They are sealed with the Blood of the Heart of Jesus and with the tears of the Heart of Mary. (The Blood and water, in addition to representing the sacraments of the Eucharist and Baptism, also represent the sacrificial union of the Two Hearts.) These Hearts that have been spiritually and physically united on earth – in love, in the redeeming mission, in suffering and sacrifice, in their palpitations of love for God and humanity – are also united in glory. Precisely in virtue of the Resurrection and the Ascension, and in virtue of the Assumption of Mary, the only two persons who are in Heaven in body and soul are Jesus and Mary. The only Hearts in Heaven with both their human and spiritual plentitudes are the Two Hearts. “If, then, we have died with Christ, we…shall also live with him” (Rom 6:8). This Scripture verse is applied in a particular way to the Blessed Virgin who, experiencing in Her Heart a spiritual death on Calvary, also experiences now in Her Heart the glory, the life, and the joy of being eternally united with Her Son. We can see the unity of the Two Hearts beginning at the Annunciation, culminating on Calvary, and being rewarded in Heaven. This is why the prayer of the Holy Rosary is so important in order to grow in contemplation, communion and imitation of the Two Hearts. Through the Joyful, Sorrowful, Luminous, and Glorious mysteries of the lives of Jesus and Mary, the unity of their Hearts is clearly manifested. The Holy Rosary leads us, through the Heart of Mary, to communion with the Heart of Jesus in all of its mysteries. THE HEART OF MARY LEADS US TO THE HEART OF JESUS On September 22, 1986, the Holy Father stated, “It is with regard to her special role in her Son’s mission that devotion to Mary’s Heart has prime importance, for through love of her Son and of all of humanity she exercises a unique instrumentality in bringing us to him” (Address to the International Symposium on the Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, no.3). The Holy Father tells us that Mary is a unique instrument to lead us to Jesus and it is from this understanding that we comprehend the reason, purpose and end of the consecration to the Heart of Mary. On May 13, 1982, John Paul II in Fatima said, “To consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary means to lead it to the foot of the Cross of Her Son. It means to consecrate the world to the Pierced Heart of Jesus, thereby bringing it back to the fountain of its redemption” (cf. no.8). The first consecration is that of Saint John at the foot of the Cross: “Behold your Mother” (Jn 19:27). When Jesus said, “‘Woman, behold your Son,’ He opened, in a new way, the Heart of the Mother. A few moments later, the solider pierced the Heart of Jesus; with these words, the Heart of Mary was opened to receive those whom the Pierced Heart of Christ was to reach with His redemptive power. The Heart of Mary was pierced by the same love for man and for the world with which Christ loved man and the world, offering Himself on the Cross” (cf. John Paul II, Homily, May 13, 1982, no.7). At the foot of the Cross, Christ confided the beloved disciple – and in him, the entire Church – to the maternal care of Mary, so that what She has done with him, She may now do with the mystical Body.